42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

Searching for the question to the answer of 42.

Box

Every time someone says think outside the box, a fairy dies.

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Productive

I was productive today.
I feel like shouting to the world.
I made pumpkin chocolate chip muffins from scratch.
I made carrot cake from scratch.
I made tuscan soup from scratch.
I did the dishes and even did yoga.
It wiped me out.
Hurray to all the people who cook every day, for multiple meals. Hurray to all the people who also [...]

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Weak

I’m weak.
After almost two years of vegetarianism with the occasional slip, I’ve slid back into old ways.
I’m not sure what happened. A fellow vegetarian enabled me, and I enabled her. Chicken tastes so good.
It was a chicken taco in the land of the best Mexican food, I think, that did us both in.
And I’ve looked [...]

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Just one more

Just one more quest.
There’s always one more. And it takes forever. And just as you complete the quest, you realize there’s another quest. Or get sidetracked. Need new clothes, more drinks. Need to sell those items in the Auction House. Need more money to learn new spells.
World of Warcraft has taken over my life.

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The bank

Banks put up a good front.
They like to pretend that they can walk you through all sorts of changes in your life. They put smiling families on their posters. They like to market themselves as being able to serve your every need, from checking, savings, mortgage and credit card. They can even help you pay [...]

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Sign

Sometimes a sign says it all.

I took this first picture with a friend’s cameraphone, to capture the sign in its natural habitat.
 
This one I took after I … uh … liberated the sign. It has made me giggle for months. I was disappointed to find, on close inspection, that it was simply written with a [...]

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Contagion

I feel like a drug seeker, finding ways to feed my new addiction.
How can I find time to play World of Warcraft? Do I neglect the dishes again? Do I wait until the last possible minute to take a shower before work? Do I stay up late, and get up early, rubbing achy, dry eyes, [...]

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